Netanyahu får majoritet – gratuleras av Yair Lapid

Legislative elections were held in Israel on 1 November 2022 to elect the members of Knesset (MK). The next elections for the 25th Knesset following the 2021 Israeli legislative election were initially scheduled for no later than 11 November 2025 according to the four-year term limit set by Basic Law: The Government. The Thirty-sixth government of Israel, a national unity government formed between eight political parties, held the narrowest possible majority (61 seats) in the 120-member Knesset. In April 2022, MK Idit Silman quit the governing coalition and left it without a majority.On 20 June 2022, following several legislative defeats for the governing coalition in the Knesset, prime minister Naftali Bennett and alternate prime minister Yair Lapid announced the introduction of a bill to dissolve the 24th Knesset, which was approved on 30 June. Simultaneously, in accordance with the rotation government agreement that was part of the 2021 coalition deal, Lapid became prime minister and leads a caretaker government until the final results of the election that took place on 1 November.Within the context of the 2019–2022 Israeli political crisis, this was the fifth legislative election in the last three-and-a-half years, for no party since 2019 has been able to form a stable coalition. 40 political parties registered to run for these elections, although only twelve to fourteen parties are projected to make the 3.25% minimum to win at least one seat under Israel's closed list, proportional representation system for the Knesset's 120 seats.